Belinurus silesiacus Roemer 1883 (arthropod)

Xiphosura - Xiphosurida - Belinuridae

Full reference: F. Roemer. 1883. Ueber eine Art der Limuliden-Gattung Belinurus aus dem Steinkohlengebirge Oberschlesiens. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 35:429-432

Belongs to Belinurus according to J. C. Lamsdell 2022

See also Lamsdell 2020, Lamsdell and Clapham 2021 and Roemer 1883

Sister taxa: Belinurus iswarinensis, Belinurus kiltorkensis, Belinurus lacoei, Belinurus metschetensis, Belinurus stepanovi, Belinurus sustai, Belinurus trilobitoides

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gräfin-Laura-Grube, near Königshütte, which is in a Yeadonian fluvial-lacustrine shale in Poland

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gräfin-Laura-Grube, near Königshütte

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